Pocket.



PATENTED SEPT. a, 1903;

W. DELAVOYE.v

POCKET.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 25, 1901.

N0 MODEL.

m: Noamspzrzas co. FHDYGLITHO, wasnmnrou, u. c.

UNTTnn STATES Patented September 8, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

POCKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 738,168, dated September 8, 1903.

Application filed September 25,1901. Serial No. 76,538. (No model.)

To all whmn it ntrtg concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM DELAVOYE, a citizen of the United States, residing at W'ilton, in the county of Saratoga and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Pockets for Trousers and other Garments, of which the following is a description.

My invention relates to garments of all kinds which are provided with pockets, and particularly to garments in the pockets of which it is usual to carry coin and paper money and also trinkets and other small articles which are liable to be lost or dropped.

The object of my invention is to provide a safety-pocket of a character which will not be bulky, will be convenient, easily opened and clo'sed,and into which the hand maybe readily inserted for the purpose of extracting the contents thereof.

Therefore myinvention consists in a pocket for garments having the features such as are hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawing the figure shows in perspective a portion of a pair of trousers having sections thereof broken away, so as to show the structure of the pockets thereof.

E indicates the body of the trousers.

The ordinary pockets of the trousers are indicated by B, and A indicates a piece of fabric sewed to the inside of the back portion of the ordinary pocket, a piece of fabric being shown as sewed within both pockets. To the inside of the rear portion of each of the ordinary pockets is secured by any suit-able means the male member of an ordinary glove-fastener, and to the inside of the upper edge of the piece of fabric A is secured thefemale member of such glove-fastener. The pieces of fabric A constitute and form, together with the rear portion of the ordinary pocket, a supplementary pocket, which may be closed and held fastened by the means above described. The supplementary pocket may be given any desired outline orshape, that shown in the drawing being substantially the outline or contour of the ordinary pocket in and to which it is secured. The upper edge or mouth of the supplementary pocket is, however, cut substantially straight and is disposed so as to form an angle with the mouth of the ordinary pocket or with the side of the trousers, especially if the opening to the ordinary pocket be arranged in the side of the trousers. The mouth of the supplementary pocket will thus lie substantially in line with the thrust of the hand into the ordinary pocket. It will be obvious, however, that this disposition of the mouth of the supplementary pocket will be changed in the event that the mouth of the ordinary pocket should be otherwise disposed. Ordinarily the supplementary pocket is stitched to the ordinary pocket by a single line of stitching; but any other suitable means may be employed for the purpose.

From the above description and the illustration afforded by the drawing it will be clear that the supplementary pocket can be tightly secured against the insertion of a hand by stealth and that the contents thereof will be practically safe from extraction by accident or in any other way. Coins are often drawn from the ordinary pocket by being mixed with bills, paper, or trinkets carried therein. To avoid this, the supplementary pocket is provided for the purpose of containing the bills or other papers or such valuables as it may be desirable to place therein. Such disposition of the paper money, &c., enables the withdrawal of coin from the ordinary pocket without disturbing the bills or the extraction of the bills from the supplementary pocket without withdrawing or losing the coins contained in the ordinary pocket.

It will be obvious that the safety-pocket above described is applicable to all kinds of garments and that the disposition of the same is such as to avoid and prevent loss of things contained therein either accidentally or otherwise.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In combination with the pocket of a garment, a safety-pocket, contained in the gar merit-pocket, consisting of a single piece of fabric secured to the inside of the rear portion of said garment-pocket, and wholly within the outline thereof, by a line of stitching extending about the edges of said piece of fabric except at one portion, and said fabric being disposed so as to have the free portion at an angle to the mouth of the garmenttoo ijocket, th'u's pioviding 2i lfielith-opehing for In testimony of sztt'ne I Sign thy name t0 the safety-pocket lying substantially in line this specification in the presence of the two 10' with the thrust of the hand into the garmentsubscribing Witnesses. pocket, and means for remo'vably fastening I t 5 the fabric at the free portion directly to the WILLIAM DELAVOYE' rear portion of said garment-pocket, thus Witnesses: v I closing the mouth-opening 0f the safety- GEORGE F. HOMER, pocket. JOHN N. CAL'LAHAN. 

